EPTTalk to your teachers and explain your circumstances without begging for special favours. If passing is your goal, it should be fairly attainable since teachers usually bump up your mark for good performance in final exam (even if the calculated average is below the passing grade). Assuming you've been on the good side of teachers (I dearly hope so), they will make room for you to pass as long as you put in the effort in the next few days.
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Talk to your teachers and explain your circumstances without begging for special favours. If passing is your goal, it should be fairly attainable since teachers usually bump up your mark for good performance in final exam (even if the calculated average is below the passing grade). Assuming you've been on the good side of teachers (I dearly hope so), they will make room for you to pass as long as you put in the effort in the next few days. | ||
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TheAntZ
Israel6248 Posts
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Masq
Canada1792 Posts
pick one class and focus on that. Its better to do well in 1 class and retake the class you did poorly in, than to attempt in 7days to cram 2 classes of material and fail both. | ||
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perestain
Germany308 Posts
On December 13 2011 00:51 Bunn wrote: Well I don't hate physics, as I can actually find it interesting and useful. But maths not so much. I just don't understand logarithms, all those functions and what-not. I guess I'll start by cramming maths first as that seems harder. Don't worry, there is not much you need to "understand" about logarithms. Lets say there is some function f=a^x and you wanna know what x is? well mathematicians at some point in history just found some simple rules how to calculate it. They decided to name it "logarithm". Just make yourself comfortable with the definition and the calculation rules. And practice them on various examples. No need for any deeper understanding there, at least at lower levels. It is like starcraft, memorizing some solid build orders will get you to a certain level. Before you're able to execute them with ease, it is not helpful to worry about deeper strategies. Just make sure you practice and dont waste time on youtube or internet forums. I believe math isnt hard to do at that level, it is just that people oftentimes try too hard to look for some intuitive "understanding" that is not to be had at that level, and then they stop exercising and start to worry and procrastinate. | ||
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TheGiz
Canada708 Posts
The best way to learn theoretical courses is by doing the assigned problem sets; you can't study problem solving ability. 7 days is a ton of time in the academic world. You can learn what you need to learn to at least pass in that time. | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
I'm sorry, but math and physics are some of the hardest subjects to cram for because they depend so heavily on good fundamentals (i.e, knowing stuff you learned before, not just the stuff that's on this test). But if you ask for help AND do the work it's not impossible. Good luck. | ||
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sh4w
United States713 Posts
On December 13 2011 02:15 Masq wrote: you're screwed basically. pick one class and focus on that. Its better to do well in 1 class and retake the class you did poorly in, than to attempt in 7days to cram 2 classes of material and fail both. Sadly this is correct. It's happened to me before, and I failed both. Especially since it is math, it is so hard to learn on your own, and know the materials without going to class every day, taking the quizzes, and doing the homework. Just do the best you can I guess, but you are probably gonna have to re take the classes. | ||
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leser
Croatia239 Posts
On December 13 2011 01:17 TheAntZ wrote: If you're that far behind, you need to give up having any fun at all and work yourself to sleep every day. If you ever sense the slightest hint of procrastination in your thoughts, crush it like the fist of an angry god. You'll be miserable for a while, but so very happy and relieved when you finally have leisure time again QFT being miserable for 9 months in college, and having only the 3 remaining months of leisure time is such an awesome trade. Sadly, for subjects such as math and physics there are no shortcuts, no sum-ups and no reading-lightly to produce any kind of good results. On college level it's not possible to catch up to 4 months of material in 7 days, but on high school level it should be VERY possible if you are serious about putting your time in it (and you have the fundamentals), but there will be sacrifices you will have to do. 1) abandon everything other than studying 2) limit your sleep to 5-6 hours (you will catch up after you get shit done) 3) work all day every day theory is always very good to know in math and physics, but if you don't understand it, try working through the easier practice problems first and return to trying to understand the theory once you have a basic understanding of what shit means and what is going on. Then practice some more until your eyes bleed. Number one trap you should be looking not to fall into is skimming through and reading solved practice problems. Your brain tricks you into a state of mind where you *think* you understand and *feel* like you understand, but you actually don't and you will fail solving easiest problems on your exam because you don't know the specific errors you do(you learn these through practice, and they're generally very easy to identify and eliminate if you practice). work work work. | ||
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Awesomo
Netherlands206 Posts
On December 13 2011 03:35 sh4w wrote: Sadly this is correct. It's happened to me before, and I failed both. Especially since it is math, it is so hard to learn on your own, and know the materials without going to class every day, taking the quizzes, and doing the homework. Just do the best you can I guess, but you are probably gonna have to re take the classes. It's dependant on a lot of factors; such as matter covered in the tests, and assuming he's in a comparable grade as i was last year (second-to-last year of highschool, over here that's at 17 y/o) But i haven't studied for more than two days for most test for pretty much all of my highschool career. With my tendency to procratination that's approx 2-5 hours of effective studying total. This hasn't lead to great grades, but i was able to pass nonetheless. Two tests in a week is totally doable Not saying this will be easy, i figure you haven't been to many classes on the subjects, but that just means you need to practice a lot, and if you sacrifice enough free time 7 days should be enough. | ||
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RedJustice
United States1004 Posts
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Endymion
United States3701 Posts
On December 13 2011 00:11 TheKefka wrote: http://www.khanacademy.org/ If your English is decent you won't have any problems understanding. The video selection covers everything from basic arithmetic to college math(which you won't need). Every time I got sick in high school and didn't attend class for a longer period of time I just watched the videos and learned everything from there and only opened my math book to practice some problems. And the best part about it its fun  GL! why do i even need university... i just watched like 3 months worth of accounting material in 20 minutes.. ok nvm some of his finance concepts aren't exactly accurate, i see why i need a phd teaching me | ||
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TheGiz
Canada708 Posts
On December 13 2011 05:05 RedJustice wrote: Ask your teacher about tutoring resources. Many schools have volunteer tutor hours from a teacher or some students who are very advanced in the subject. Otherwise find a friend who knows the information well to go over it with you. (but don't get distracted) No schools have this outside of First Year. Friends are the only way to get through school. Friends are boss. | ||
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THE_DOMINATOR
United States309 Posts
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